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Summary

Published annually at the start of each year, Am Govprovides unmatched currency and is the first student-centered American Government text. It provides instructors who normally choose a big, brief, or essentials text with scholarly, succinct, and conventionally organized core content. A magazine format engages students and motivates active participation in our democracy (all this, and at a price that students prefer). Painstaking student and instructor reviews, surveys, and focus groups; as well as ethnographic research into student study behaviors, preferences, and needs, make Am Govthe product of serious scholarship. Am Govbrings serious fun to American Government through its quality, currency, features, and format.

Table of Contents

1: Citizenship in Our Changing Democracy

2: The Constitution: The Foundation of Citizens' Rights

3: Federalism: Citizenship and the Dispersal of Power

4: Civil Liberties: Expanding Citizens' Rights

5: Civil Rights: Toward a More Equal Citizenry

6: Public Opinion: Listening to Citizens

7: Political Participation: Equal Opportunities and Unequal Voices

8: Interest Groups in America

9: Parties and Political Campaigns: Citizens and the Electoral Process

10: Media: Tuning In or Tuning Out

11: Congress: Doing the People's Business

12: The Presidency: Power and Paradox

13: Bureaucracy: Citizens as Owners and Consumers

14: The Courts: Judicial Power in a Democratic Setting

15: Public Policy: Responding to Citizens

16: Foreign and Defense Policy: Protecting American Interests in the World